pretermit
Example Sentences
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We will pretermit these absurd and silly men: but, Cousin Lucian!
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
Now in the sairvice of Goad and the King 'tis raight to pretermit no aiffort to bring the guilty to justice.
From The Path of the King by Buchan, John
He calmly said that no such demonstrations could induce him to add to or withhold a single syllable of what he designed to say, or to pretermit a single act he had designed to do.
From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund
I must, therefore, reluctantly pretermit all such matter—reserving for some other occasion the gratification of the public curiosity therein.
From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton
What precisely is meant by 'ideal' is a question which for the moment I pretermit.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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